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You are the Duke of hazards.

That could've been the T boner?

Hazards fixed. I pulled all the connectors C8 and C7 and cleaned all the terminals with Deoxit D5, there was some green residue in some of those terminals. I put the harness back in and now the Hazards are working.

Your promotion would have more impact if you picked an item of misinformation and corrected it. Also not sure that the author can define his own work as definitive.

Maybe it's just semantics or wording, but what you have described really makes no sense. Let's start with a premise - "If the car is not moving, and the transmission is in a gear (any gear), then nothing inside the transmission is spinning." With that in mind, when you are sitting still, there really isn't any difference in what's moving inside the transmission regardless of which gear you are in. Neutral is different, but all the gears (including reverse) should result in everything inside the tranny to be stationary. Maybe the shift lever is buzzing on the worn bushings or against the tunnel somehow? Maybe the shift rods inside the tranny are buzzing vibrating when in first or second. Unless I'm misunderstanding the issue (which is totally possible) then this cannot be a bearing issue inside the tranny case.

@SpeedRoopreviously asked about the Kanri number on the dashboard at the spot where there would normally be a pen holder. It's surmised that this was most likely placed there by a previous owner, as it is not a factory inclusion that appears in any period photos. @HS30-H had clued me into the fact that these rally pen holders were actually still readily available, so I bought several of them with the thought that I'd have to retrofit one with some sort of mount, in order to properly affix it to the dashboard. In stock form, they appear to be designed as clip-ons for a clipboard, or other hard, thin surface. With some samples of the pen holder in-hand, I elected to take a chance and finally remove the Kanri badge, and hopefully re-fashion a new pen holder and custom mount to be placed in the same location. I had always suspected that the Kanri badge was simply a decoration that covered up some form of glue blemish or tear left by the original holder when the car was converted to street use. However, I was happy to be mistaken - after a little careful prying, the badge came off, revealing a precise 1/2" slit and groove that had been cut into the dashboard. The groove fit the new pen holder snugly, so after a little massaging, I managed to situate the new pen holder pretty much as it appeared in period photos. Job done!

Yeah I think he and the beers were the ones doing the t-boning.

Sounds like when I moved from MI to AZ last year. I had only a few weeks to get rid of 40 years of Z part hoarding. I basically gave away truckloads of stuff. What people didn't get before I left went into a dumpster. I looked at it as paying it forward. Hopefully, many of the parts will find their way onto other cars. The OP in this thread sounds like he or she is in a similar situation.

Slow progress. Waiting on the body shop to get room to take in my car. I sent off a bunch of stuff to get plated and just got the stuff back. I thought they did a very nice job considering how rough the stuff was. I wet blasted and wire wheeled every nut bolt and washer. I think it was 43 lbs shipping! Engine rebuild should be able to get finished now that I have all the bolts and suspension should be back from powder coating any day. Marquis Zinc Plus in Dundalk MD. Talk to Tabitha, she kept everything sorted for me!

Too bad you didn’t take a picture before so you would have a reference. For what its worth, here is a picture of the tank from my 72 240Z. The pads should be pretty close to the tank on a 280Z. I have a 280Z tank around here somewhere, when I come across it I’ll shoot a pic of it too.

I already asked in a PM, so I call dibs!

Glad it was that simple despite the super coincidental nature of the failure. Occam's razor. So you want to send me your dead tach so I can open it up on the operating table and do some reverse engineering?

Come on down to Alabam! Weather is nice here compared to other's. It's only 99F here. I'm having trouble between gas price and temperature signs.